I wonder if teams were forced to take the same bus company into downtown, or if the team that went via Zhongxiao Fuxing did it for their own reason?

According to this website, there are three bus lines running to Zhongxiao Fuxing: Changrong, Dayou and Feigou. Dayou and Feigou (represented in pink) run directly to Zhongxiao Fuxing, but Changrong (represented in orange) makes a stop at Minquan W Rd Station first, which saves teams that get off there about 10min, even taking into consideration the time needed to change metro lines.

However, Guoguang (represented in cyan), leaving every 15min, runs directly to Taipei Main (Train) Station, which is just one stop away from Ximen. I suppose that would be the quickest way to get from the airport to Ximending by public transport?

So back to the main question: why did the team take the bus to Zhongxiao Fuxing? Because of producer instruction, limited information, or for some other reason?

(The map is drawn by me and by no means official.)

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However, Guoguang (represented in cyan), leaving every 15min, runs directly to Taipei Main (Train) Station, which is just one stop away from Ximen. I suppose that would be the quickest way to get from the airport to Ximending by public transport?

I don't know if there's any tasks which teams have to complete near ZhongXiao Fuxing, but I can tell you that you're right that taking the bus is the quickest way to get to Ximending from the Airport. The buses are fast, efficient and cost savings too. However which buses is it will depend on the timings teams arrive in Taipei, I remembered when I was there the GuoGuang bus was delayed/no schedule/or whatsoever reason so I got on to the Dayou bus instead.

apskip, there's a KA Bima that departs from Jakarta at 5 pm & arrives at Yogya close to 1 am.This is the earliest arrival in Yogya.For train departure list departing from Jakarta to Yogya, here's a good website http://gudeg.net/en/train_search_result.html

Thanks very much, Krabbe. That train finder link was very useful. Although I had found the official schedules for Java, it was laid out like Indian Rail schedules. If a city is an intermediate stop and not the origin or final stop, you may not find its timing.

Actually the time shown on that list is the arrival time in Yogya (if you click on the train name, it will show you a more detailed schedule...e.g departs Jakarta at x hour, arrives in Yogya at x hour, departs Yogya at x hour, arrives at final stop at x hour, etc)

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What are the most likely Train stations in Jakarta for these schedules please?

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What are the most likely Train stations in Jakarta for these schedules please?

That's an easy one thanks to prior in the day research. It is Gambir station from which trains to Yogyakarta leave. Trains leaving the Kota station follow the northern route and don't come near Yogyakarta.

Note: here is some additional information derived from a post by Prama below -

Peach, Pasarsenen is a third station in Jakarta and some trains for Yogyakarta leave from there.

Prama, thanks for the hint at what Pasarsenen is, a third Jakarta station after Kota and Gambir. It looks like a close call between using the 1930 departure from Pasarsenen arriving Yogyakarta 0402 and the 2015 departure from Gambir arriving 0444.

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So probably not any tasks or activity until the 22nd (Jakarta time). Maybe by around 19.00 EDT tomorrow there will be something else.

Again, you can not say that. There is a big time window there, there could well be a route info task to get the train info.

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The postings by our Taiwanese friends give us a rough estimate of departure times:9.49am: Three teams just checked in on the mat.11.26pm: After 12h at the Pit Stop, the teams arrive on a bus from their accomodation and prepare to leave.

Teams would have missed this flight to Jakarta:20 JUN 2011KA 483 (2055-2235) from Taipei to Hong KongRI 841 (2335-0400) from Hong Kong to Jakarta

But have a chance of making this one:21 JUN 2011CI 5871 (0005-0420) from Taipei to SingaporeGA 823 (0725-0810) from Singapore to Jakarta

The next best flights are the directs we have:CI 5855 (0805-1205) from Taipei to JakartaCI 761 (0845-1300) from Taipei to JakartaBR 237 (0900-1310) from Taipei to Jakarta

The Indonesia rail website (can read enough Bahasa to make it through the system) shows departures from Gambir and Jatinegara Stations in Jakarta, but produces an error for the Kota and Pasar Senen Stations. Blue are the trains confirmed by the official website, red are additional ones from the website suggested by Krabbe, and purple is an additional one provided by Prama:

That's a pretty wide spread of possible arrival times, but since the earliest possible train arrives at almost ten in the evening, I'd agree with Prophet and it looks certain that everyone will be held up by an Hours of Operation when they get to Yogyakarta.

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